Ľudo Lehen is s Slovakian art painter.

This web presentation, (site) has been created on the occasion of his 80th birth anniversary and its objective is to introduce this spectacular man, graphic artist, chess composer, keen storyteller, as well as a passionate admirer of women and nature to the general public.
In his youth, at the beginning of his carrer, some inevitable moments struck his life having been the reason of his long-life “isolation”.
In the years, when every young artist has strong desire to fully enjoy their life and be creative, his life suddenly took a different course. He became a victim of an unfair political court typical for the communist Czechoslovakia back to the 50’s of the last century. He spent 6 years in the prison. Surprisingly, his first two exhibitions took place there. However when he came back from the jail it was a different Ľudo Lehen. He remained an artist but he had built up his own universe, where he painted, as he says “just for himself”. At the present time he lives in the largest city area of Bratislava - Petržalka. His flat is his studio and sometimes an exhibition room at the same time. The centre of his art space is woman. Sometimes she is getting a shape of daughter; sometimes she is having the face of Venus or a girl in traditional clothing. The figures are stylized and depict some archaic elements present in Non European art.

Ľudo Lehen – Bibliography
1925 - Was Born in Banska Bystrica on June 3
1949 - 1955 Studied on University of Arts in Bratislava (professors D.Milly, V.Hložník)

Exhibitions:
1967 – Leopoldov
1968 – Leopoldov
1973 – Trenčín – Art Protisy
1985 – Šaľa – Pastels
1998 – Galanta – Selection
2001 – ACTS - Bratislava
2003 – Bratislava